Top UK diplomat in USA criticizes Trump in leaked memos
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LONDON — Leaked diplomatic cables reveal that Britain’s ambassador to the United States regards President Donald Trump’s administration as inept, hobbled by infighting, and unlikely to improve.
The memos published in the Mail on Sunday contain highly critical comments from Ambassador Kim Darroch about the current state of Trump’s government, providing a rare look at how a senior British diplomat views the government of Britain’s closest ally.
“We don’t really believe this administration is going to become substantially more normal; less dysfunctional; less unpredictable; less faction riven; less diplomatically clumsy and inept,” Darroch wrote in one of a series of leaked documents covering the period from 2017 to the present.
Britain’s Foreign Office did not challenge the authenticity of the leaked documents. It called the leak “mischievous behaviour” and said the public expects diplomats to provide honest assessments of the politics in the countries where they are posted.
